Lately we’ve been getting a lot of requests in pairs. Not the same queries, just queries for the same collection. Today we had two email requests regarding the Michael Philip collection from people who had spotted the portion of the …
Recently an Anchorage resident stopped by the Consortium Library and dropped off a manila envelope addressed to the Archives. The Access Services clerk who received the envelope dutifully brought it up to us (thanks Behnaaz!). We popped it open and …
Some days it seems like the most efficient people around here are our student workers. And maybe that’s because we give them tasks with beginnings, middles, and ends, unlike the stuff we reserve for ourselves which seems pretty much permanently …
Some days you just have to dump all those waiting reports and documents to write and such and just spend a day moving stuff about. Today was that day.
And it all started with the picturingUAA project. We’ve been putting …
So, we’ve not been very good about the blog this week. But we have an excuse. Between researchers, Nicole, Mariecris and I (Arlene) have been working for Kathy. Kathy’s a pretty hard taskmaster. So we’re keeping busy–or at least telling …
Today’s entry is by Arlene.
I’m feeling a little self-indulgent today as my vacation time is coming to a rapid end. Since Nicole has shared some of her favorite excerpts from the Edwin Glenn diary, I’d like to share mine. …
Today was a day we all spent on long-lived, and in some cases long-overdue, projects.
Mariecris spent the day working on the Commonwealth North records. Commonwealth North deposited some 80 cubic feet worth of records with us about a year …
We’ve been hearing this term a lot lately. Some granting agencies are offering grants to help uncover “hidden collections.” And hidden is usually defined as a lack of descriptive material on the collection.
Hang around archival conferences a lot, and …
Or a day in the work life of, anyhow.
Here’s a sample of the things the archivists in A&SC worked on today:
Nicole: Nicole continued proofing the transcript of the Glenn diary in preparation for bringing it online.
Mariecris: Mariecris …
Finding aids are the description that archivists provide to aid researchers in finding the materials they seek. Most of the finding aids we create here at A&SC are single collection inventories: these can vary from an item level listing (rare …
